Nose Ring
20th century (made)
| Place of origin |
A small gold nose ring made with a gold wire loop with a hook at the left hand side which fastens into a double twisted eye made of thinner wire which is soldered onto the end of the beaten lower part of the ring which supports the decoration. The thinner wire is threaded through an irregular seed pearl, a red glass bead between two tiny clusters of pendant seed pearls. The main decoration consists of a faceted red stone backed in foil on lac, apparent at the back, in a tear-drop-shaped setting outlined in beaded wire with two florets of seed pearls strung on wire which is twisted round the lower portion of the ring which is ornamented with a superimposed of herring-bone wires and irregularly shaped seed pearls radiating out from the lower edge threaded through splayed cup settings ringed with thin beaded wire.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Gold, pearls, glass, metal foil and lac. Wirework |
| Brief description | A gold nose ring with pearls and glass from Karnataka |
| Physical description | A small gold nose ring made with a gold wire loop with a hook at the left hand side which fastens into a double twisted eye made of thinner wire which is soldered onto the end of the beaten lower part of the ring which supports the decoration. The thinner wire is threaded through an irregular seed pearl, a red glass bead between two tiny clusters of pendant seed pearls. The main decoration consists of a faceted red stone backed in foil on lac, apparent at the back, in a tear-drop-shaped setting outlined in beaded wire with two florets of seed pearls strung on wire which is twisted round the lower portion of the ring which is ornamented with a superimposed of herring-bone wires and irregularly shaped seed pearls radiating out from the lower edge threaded through splayed cup settings ringed with thin beaded wire. |
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| Credit line | Given by Dr W. Ganguly |
| Object history | This nose ring is part of the large donation of Indian folk jewellery from Dr Waltraud Ganguly which was collected over the last few decades before her death in 2015 from dealers in both India and Europe, in parallel with extensive fieldwork she carried out in the Indian Sub-Continent. Dr Ganguly notes that the technique of manually chiselled globules or wires was traditionally used in Lucknow. |
| Historical context | This type of nose ring is still worn and made in Karnataka. |
| Bibliographic reference | Ganguly
P.110, illus |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IS.431-2019 |
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| Record created | June 23, 2015 |
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